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Find out more about SSE

SSE’s purpose is to responsibly provide the energy and related services needed now and in the future. It aims to be a leading provider of energy and related services in a low-carbon world. Its strategy is to create value for shareholders and society from developing, owning and operating energy and related infrastructure and services in a sustainable way. These are the four pillars of the SSE strategy. Delivery of this strategy is dependent on the shared talent, skills and values of people throughout SSE.

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Creating value for shareholders and society

SSE’s vision is to be a leading energy provider in a low-carbon world. To achieve this we have set four fundamental goals for 2030 which put sustainability at heart of SSE’s business strategy. These goals aren’t just important to SSE, they matter to everyone – that’s why they are directly linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Find out more about how we are building a better world of energy for the future in this section of the website.

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Investing in Communities

SSE is committed to supporting the communities in which we live and work. We understand we must contribute positively to this society by being an active contributor to the communities that we are part of.

This section of our website provides examples and case studies of how we serve the communities we operate in.

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Our strategy

SSE's strategy is to deliver the efficient operation of, and investment in, a balanced range of economically-regulated and market-based businesses in energy production, storage, transmission, distribution, supply and related services in the energy markets in Great Britain and Ireland.

Laura Sneddon: An apprenticeship case study

As we’re halfway through National Apprenticeship Week we’ve invited one of our current trainees to give an insight into life as an apprentice.

Laura Sneddon is a 30-year-old Technical Skills Trainee (TST) with SSE’s Power Distribution business (SSEPD). She discovered SSE’s trainee scheme whilst browsing on Twitter during a gap year in Australia and loves the unpredictable nature of her job.

She said: “The apprenticeship can take you anywhere – one day you might be out on a job and the next day you could be planning another, or learning about another part of the business. You spend time with jointers, liners and fitters, you undertake managerial-based placements and you spend around 13 weeks of the year studying for your degree.

“I am 30 at the moment, but a lot of people on my course are in their 20s, to think by the time they reach my age they will have 10 years’ of experience behind them is quite something. I love my job and when I meet my friends I am always talking about the different things that I do.”

Research SSE has carried out with PwC tells us for every £1 we spend on our apprenticeship programme the net economic impact on society is £4.29. SSE currently recruits more than 100 apprentices every year – investing an average of £80,000 in each trainee – with opportunities in Power Station Operations, Gas Service and Gas Installation, Mechanical and Electrical Contracting, and our Power Systems business.

Our apprenticeship programme is open now and we’d urge young people to consider a career in the energy industry and invest in their own future.

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It’s Living Wage Week, an annual celebration and call to arms for the Living Wage campaign. It also marks the announcement of the new 2018/19 Living Wage rate – £9 across the UK and £10.55 in London. Rachel McEwen, SSE’s Director of Sustainability, takes a look at the progress made by Living Wage Scotland over the past few years.

SSE has become a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative with over 9,800 business and non-business participants across more than 160 countries.